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>    Rows can be removed from a table using the <TT
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    command.
    Suppose you are no longer interested in the weather of Hayward.
    Then you can do the following to delete those rows from the table:
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    All weather records belonging to Hayward are removed.

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>     city      | temp_lo | temp_hi | prcp |    date
---------------+---------+---------+------+------------
 San Francisco |      46 |      50 | 0.25 | 1994-11-27
 San Francisco |      41 |      55 |    0 | 1994-11-29
(2 rows)</PRE
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>    One should be wary of statements of the form
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    Without a qualification, <TT
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    empty.  The system will not request confirmation before
    doing this!
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